When it comes to sweet talkin’ the ladies, the Jonas Brothers’ words may as well be carved from Jolly Ranchers.
Music
Some really important stuff happened in the ’80s — the wacky wall walker was invented, Pam Ewing awoke from a dream, Alf ate a cat, etc.
Comedy night
MC Chris sounds as if he has a canine’s squeak toy for a voice box and drops rhymes that betray an intimate knowledge of “Star Wars,” 12-sided dice and nacho-flavored Combos.
Sitting in his car outside a death metal house show on a recent Wednesday evening, Brett Kasden is pondering how many people he’s inadvertently sprayed with saliva at his band’s gigs in recent years.
He called it “R&B 101,” and he boiled it down to a single utterance voiced with syllables elongated, testing the elasticity of the word like a boulder dropped onto a trampoline.
Nina DiGregorio started out as a classically trained musician but wanted more out of her career.
NEW YORK — You’re listening to it on the way to the beach, or when your toes are resting in the sand. Or you’re on a crowded train without a seat, sweating as funky smells scorch from the left or right. Luckily, you’re jamming to funky summertime beats, you’re doing OK.
They’re baaaaack. Everyone from Betty Buckley to Michael Feinstein to conductor Keith Lockhart, that is.
Not many groups can cut to the chase and just name their new single “Best Song Ever.”
John Oates has new singing partners in cyberspace. But when he comes to the Hard Rock Hotel this weekend, it will be with the one you know.
Hard rockers Avenged Sevenfold roar into the Mandalay Bay Events Center on Oct. 26, with Deftones and Ghost B.C. Tickets are $39.50, $59.50 and $69.50 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday at Ticketmaster outlets.
Prepare for some wicked cottonmouth and a case of the munchies so bad that you’d punch a baby for a handful of Cheetos.